Despite the drop in temperature, a small and hardy band of souls are scurrying to excavate as much as possible in the trench before it has to be refilled. A number of […]
Vicars’Court dig
Vicars’ Court dig. Is this a wall? If not…what?
Post holes and a wall-like feature beginning to emerge. Lies East-West, could this be part of the Saxon church or are we getting ahead of ourselves? The dig will continue over the […]
Vicar’s Court dig, a few photos
We plan to do some more digging there, but meanwhile we continue with washing and finds cataloguing, Thursday afternoons in the Old Court House. Here are some photos to remind us what […]
Vicar’s Court dig … is it a wall?
Week commencing October 22nd 2018… we begin excavation of test pits in Vicar’ Court no 2, trying to locate a Roman tesserae surface reportedly found in the 19thC. The pit locations were […]
Building our skills
October 11th, another fascinating day with finds specialist Zoe Tomlinson and conservation expert Jo Gray. We are developing our skills in analysing and recording all the ceramic building materials (CBM), tesserae and […]
Southwell Community Archaeology Group 